Changing Changelessly Will Meet Its Fate
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Mountain cherry blooms
Fall. Petals scatter over
Water-wheel and brook.
~ Chigetsu (Englished by Phillip Whidden
The water wheel is always turning round
And round. Its movement is unchanging yet
Unchangingness in this is always found
To be relentless, firm. These facts are threat
To anyone who does not live by truth.
The seasons are unchanging in their change.
Old age and death and dissolution youth
Must suffer. Only lack of change is strange.
The cherry blossoms open and they fall
Upon the churning wheel and water of
The brook, which constantly is changing all
The time unlike the Trinity, its love.
While water and the cherry petals swirl
To doom, their end is entropy’s far whorl.
~ Phillip Whidden
